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Study vouches for state's lousy roads, Proposal 1 offers path to long-term fix
Date: May-01-2015
Just in time for a vote on Proposal 1, the May 5 ballot issue that will determine if voters want to allocate more money to repair Michigan's roads, a nonprofit...
Construction pullback likely short-term
Date: Apr-17-2015
U.S. construction employment hit a bump in the road in March, dropping, albeit slightly, for the first time in the past 14 months. Construction jobs fell by 1,000 in March...
Failure of ballot issue could strengthen effort to repeal prevailing wage
Date: Apr-17-2015
If Proposal 1, fails at the ballot box on May 5, what then? Gov. Snyder, an active proponent of the ballot issue, has said "there is no Plan B" if...
Trades could have a lot riding on Proposal 1
Date: Apr-17-2015
The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council is supporting Proposal 1 - the May 5 statewide ballot issue that focuses on raising the state sales tax in order to increase...
Training, quality work drives John E. Green fabrication shop
Date: Apr-17-2015
SAGINAW - Carbon steel, copper, stainless, plastic, alloy... from a half-inch circumference up to 72 inches - the workforce at John E. Green's fabrication shop have processed just about every...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-17-2015
Poker Run set for May 9 All are invited to participate in a motorcycle poker run, set for Saturday, May 9 at the IBEW Local 252 JATC Training Center in...
Obama vetoes curb on union organizing rules
Date: Apr-17-2015
WASHINGTON (PAI) - In a rare win for the labor movement, President Obama upheld streamlined union election rules issued by the National Labor Relations Board that could make it easier...
Affordable Care Act gets little love from building trades funds
Date: Apr-03-2015
LANSING - Building trades unions and the rest of organized labor have mostly supported the Affordable Care Act, on the theory that it's a good thing for more Americans to...
'An absolute disaster' Prevailing wage repeal would hurt industry, exec says
Date: Apr-03-2015
LANSING - Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 - which is at dire risk of being repealed as early as May by an ultra-conservative state Legislature - has its proponents...
Are pension benefit cuts likely in Michigan? 'The answer, honestly, is 'no,'" - funds attorney
Date: Apr-03-2015
LANSING - A dysfunctional Congress that deservedly got the lowest performance marks in history last year did do a few things at the very end – it passed a union-approved...